At full power, the ruins didn't look the same anymore.
The fog that had around him all day burned away the instant it touched his aura, leaving a clear circle around him as he ran. The 8-Star energy made him so fast that one step covered as much ground as three normal ones, and the 1,000x multiplier fed everything he processed back into his movement in real time.
Everything around him became a blur as he ran.
The Lotus pulse was consistent, pulling northeast like a compass that only he could feel.
He had been moving for about four minutes when the wolves hit him.
They came out of a side corridor all at once, five of them, and they had clearly been crouched and waiting for something to run past.
Ashen Wolves were smarter than Crawlers. They set ambushes. They used the fog as cover and the ruins' acoustics to track prey.
Against a normal student, this ambush would have worked extremely well.
WHOOSH.
Holden didn't slow down at all.
